President Trump's opinion of NASA's 2024 moon mission seems to have changed quite a bit in a matter of weeks.
Trump on Friday tweeted that NASA should "NOT be talking about going back to the moon" because "we did that 50 years ago." Instead, he said NASA should focus on "bigger things," including "Mars (of which the Moon is a part)," a confusing turn of phrase that might be a reference to the fact that NASA says "exploration of the moon and Mars is intertwined."
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